After the application deadline, the Ministry of Territorial Policy has received 21 for the physical location of the Spanish space agency.
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The Zamudio Technology Park is the place proposed by the Basque government to house the headquarters of the future Spanish space agency and will compete with 20 other candidates from different autonomous communities.
Yesterday was the deadline to submit candidatures and the Ministry of Territorial Policy has received twenty one for the physical location of the Spanish space agency. Zamudio will compete with Cabanillas del Campo (Guadalajara), Cebreros (Ávila), Ciudad Real, Elche (Alicante), Estella (Navarra), Huelva, Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), Las Palmas the Gran Canaria/Agüimes/ San Bartolomé de Tirajana (Las Palmas), León, Ourense, Palencia, Puerto del Rosario (Las Palmas), Puertollano (Ciudad Real), San Javier (Murcia), the island of Tenerife (Santa Cruz de Tenerife) , Seville, Teruel, Tres Cantos (Madrid) and Yebes (Guadalajara).
Between the criteria that the committee responsible for proposing the headquarters of the future space agency will take into account the fact that the place has a wide network of access to public transport, especially the high-speed trainand be found less than an hour from an international airport; next to a hotel environment and a “dynamic” business, educational and university sector.
The Minister of Economic Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Arantxa Tapiaexplained last week that the Basque Country has “a very unified and collaborative ecosystem”, in addition to being “very adapted” to existing needs and believes that the Basque Country’s options are “very industrial in nature”.
The activity is scheduled to start in 2023 and that it has an initial budget of nearly €500 million in space programs. The Spanish space agency will initially have about 70 employees and cover about 3,000 square meters.
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Source: EITB
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